This community , and i say it again

[Lucifearus]

is the most cowardly community ive ever seen in any PVP or MP title, period

[Roadie]

Stellaris, and generally most Paradox games, are not really made as multiplayer games as the focus. They are made as sandbox RP empire builders that happen to have some "endgame" conditions sprinkled on top. Most people who play games like these enjoy the lore flavor and the aforementioned roleplay, NEITHER of which you have ANY opportunity to enjoy in a multiplayer game where your opponent is explicitly minmaxing their empire SOLELY to wipe you out.

Fact of the matter is that the primary demographic of this game is not the same as the one you are in. Most people don't have the temperament or *time* to "git gud" and sweat out a meta-rush PUG game every other day.

[Tex]

I don't want to play with toxic people like you. I deal with people all day, i don't want to be around more toxic people when when I come home after working 12 hours.

[Luzilyo]

Origineel geplaatst door Lucifearus:

Origineel geplaatst door Luzilyo:

1. mods
2. tryhard
3. cope and seethe

game is already spam crashing and has 10000 features, i dont need unstable and unbalanced mods to cater to my self esteem

Welp, there's your problem. You don't want mods, I do. Wanna play multiplayer with me? Not gonna happen. Unlucky.

[Graveweb]

Origineel geplaatst door Luzilyo:

Origineel geplaatst door Lucifearus:

game is already spam crashing and has 10000 features, i dont need unstable and unbalanced mods to cater to my self esteem

Welp, there's your problem. You don't want mods, I do. Wanna play multiplayer with me? Not gonna happen. Unlucky.

i mean, most people dont host public mod lobbies or get many players using mods...
look how many people on this thread are making excuses for refusing to play an element of the game like multiplayer. i enjoy both SP and MP, this community really is weird. kina have to agree with OP, you guys seem scared

[Graveweb]

Origineel geplaatst door Rage000:

that's just your troll thinking you are going to attract people to play against by saying something obnoxious.

Most people are not interested in the multiplayer rush with PUGs like you.

i like playing MP, i dont think anyone said anything about using meta or rushing. this thread is full of insecure people making assumptions i see

[Graveweb]

Origineel geplaatst door Roadie:

Stellaris, and generally most Paradox games, are not really made as multiplayer games as the focus. They are made as sandbox RP empire builders that happen to have some "endgame" conditions sprinkled on top. Most people who play games like these enjoy the lore flavor and the aforementioned roleplay, NEITHER of which you have ANY opportunity to enjoy in a multiplayer game where your opponent is explicitly minmaxing their empire SOLELY to wipe you out.

Fact of the matter is that the primary demographic of this game is not the same as the one you are in. Most people don't have the temperament or *time* to "git gud" and sweat out a meta-rush PUG game every other day.

I dont really agree with this, stellaris is a grand strategy game, "A grand strategy wargame or simply grand strategy game is a wargame that places focus on grand strategy: military strategy at the level of movement and use of a nation state or empire's resources", personally this seems to cater more towards competitive or multiplayer elements just from reading the basic definition even. Most paradox games have heavy multiplayer elements as well. Half the players ive seen in MP work together or ally / ignore eachother, i've seen some battle sure, but i dont think everyone is always minimaxing SOLELY to wipe individuals out either. This seems like a bias statement. The last part though, yea, it's clear the demographic of this game is a bunch of roleplayers or people who aren't keen on MP, which really is a shame for the games' potential multiplayer popularity though.

[Graveweb]

Origineel geplaatst door CyberScorpio:

This game is unbalanced af, last time I played a "competitive" MP game everyone basically played the same meta build, no thanks I'd rather play with my friends

Yea, the game is very unbalanced, which probably hurts multiplayer incentive. I'm sure OP would agree, but i think rules and lots of things in multiplayer help regulate some of these irregularities. So in the end it just sounds like you're much like the other comments here

[PackieTackie]

Origineel geplaatst door Graveweb:

Origineel geplaatst door CyberScorpio:

This game is unbalanced af, last time I played a "competitive" MP game everyone basically played the same meta build, no thanks I'd rather play with my friends

Yea, the game is very unbalanced, which probably hurts multiplayer incentive. I'm sure OP would agree, but i think rules and lots of things in multiplayer help regulate some of these irregularities. So in the end it just sounds like you're much like the other comments here

Yeah... but rules are hard to enforce with randoms, finding a group to play to your liking is way better

[Magma Dragoon]

I'm not able to play seriously for 4 hours and I can't be the only one

[Rage000]

I play multiplayer just not with the general community. No reason to. His rhetoric is bs. Its typical troll BS. boo hoo no one will play with me - toughen up buttercup. too bad.

[monkeypunch87]

Origineel geplaatst door Tex:

I don't want to play with toxic people like you. I deal with people all day, i don't want to be around more toxic people when when I come home after working 12 hours.

I was about to write a similar comment. No way I would spend time with a tryhard like OP. Not a good advertisement to try mp with random people. OP failed in his attempt.

[Pacalospizza]

I play for my own pleasure, I do not have time for others ruining my experience, I will ruin it for myself, thank you.

[Goat-Tan]

I have done a few open lobby matches, and they are all *exceedingly boring.* The best way to play the game is to find your nearest neighbor and instantly declare war and win. I have played some where this was done to me, and some where i have done this to others. Its not fun when the optimal way to do 'pvp' is to make the game as short as possible and ignore 90% of the mechanics.

Additionally, its hard to play in open lobbies because this game still has a TON of bugs that you cant trust rando's to not exploit. Things like doing archaeology sights without a scientist, abusable mechanics involving rapidly dividing and merging fleets. (You need a macro to do it at the speed you need to get the bug to trigger now, so at-least there is that....) Its just not a viable game in terms of balance or bugs when playing with randoms.

[EnjoyMyLife]

This is a game designed for Single Play not Multi. How about try game like League or Starcraft?

[steven1mac]

I've tried multiplayer a few times, it is either to slow, to fast, or people quit when things go sideways. It is a game that is a whole lot better in single player.